Luca OrtolanTrainer and Presales at Systematika

luca.ortolan@systematika.it

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4874428

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Powered by VMware vSAN

Luca OrtolanTrainer and Presales at Systematika

luca.ortolan@systematika.it

Raul Arisi Chief Marketing Officer at Sinthera

rarisi@sinthera.com

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

+ +

vSphere vSAN

Traditional vSphere Infrastructure

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Optional

vSphere

+Storage Networking Servers

VMware SDDC

Solutions

3rd Party

Ecosystem

VMware SDDC

Solutions

3rd Party

Ecosystem

Managed by vCenter Managed by vCenter

Admin Time Admin Time

HyperconvergenceIntegrated compute and

storage for virtualized environments

Scale-out Servers

Storage Network

SAN

vSAN overview

Enterprise Storage in a Native vSphere Architecture

vSphere

HD/SSDHD/SSDSSD SSD

vSAN

SSD

3-64

vSAN Aggregated Datastore

HD/SSD

vSAN Requirements

– Not every node in a vSAN cluster needs local storage.

– Hosts with no local storage can still use the distributed datastore.

Server on

vSphere HCL

1 Gb or 10 Gb NIC

SAS/SATA: RAID

controller must work in

passthrough or HBA mode.

PCI/SAS/SATA SSDAt least 1

of each

PCI/SAS/SATA HD/SSD

Cache

Data

Network

Controller

Delivering Performance and Protection • Granular Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

SDDC: Vmware Cloud Foundation

vSphere vSAN NSX

Private cloud Public cloud

End-to-End Solutions

• NSX

• vRealize Ops

• Horizon

• vRealize Automation

• vCenter

• Log Insight

• vCloud Air

• Site Recovery Manager

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Native vSphere Experience

• vMotion

• Storage vMotion

• Policy-Based Management

• Fault Tolerance

• vSphere Replication

• Data Protection

• Snapshots

• HA

• DRS

Extend with Software Ecosystem

5x Larger Hardware Choice

Deploy Confidently with Proven Data Center Solutions

HCI Powered by

VMware vSAN

Virtual SAN Seamlessly Integrates with VMware Stack

Ideal for VMware Environments

Business Critical Apps Virtual Desktops (VDI)

DR / DA

Cloud Native AppsDatabases (SQL/Oracle)

ROBOManagement

Clusters

ContainersvSAN

vSAN for VMware Horizon

Ideal for VMware Environments

Ideal for VMware Environments

vSAN for VMware Horizon

Ideal for VMware Environments

vSAN for VMware Horizon

HCI: The Fastest Growing Storage Market

30%Hyper-Converged IntegratedSystems CAGR

3XFaster than Overall IntegratedSystems Market

36%Of Overall External Storage Market*

30%CAGR

$8.1B

$7.3B

$6.2B

$5.0B

$3.7B

$2.2B

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Source: IDC Converged System Tracker, Q3’2017* Gartner Forecast – Integrated Systems Worldwide 1Q17 Update

and Worldwide External Storage System Forecast, 2Q17 Update

vSAN Adoption

vSAN Customer Adoption

150% Year Over Year Bookings Growth

>15,000 Customers

More than top three competitors combined

Wide Range of Workloads

What applications do you run on vSAN today?

VMware Horizon

Citrix Xen Desktop

Microsoft SQL Sever

MySQL Databases

Oracle Databases

SAP

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Exchange Server

NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, etc.)

Hadoop and Other Big Data Applications

VDI

Databases

Microsoft Applications

New Use Cases

Source: TechValidate survey of 316 users of vSAN

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XenDesktop on vSAN All Flash

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• Cooperative Bank

• Main focus on Sud-Tirol (IT, A)

• 12 B€ of managed capital

– 100% Milk produced in Trentino

– 50% Yogurt

– 70.000 Famlies

• VDI Infrastructure Renwal

– 2.100 VDI Citrix

– High Availability for VDI

– Various SLA

• Customer Business • Customer Needs

Customer Profile

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Solution

• 2 vSAN Stretched Cluster All Flash

– 1 Management Cluster

• 2+2

– 2 Desktop Cluster

• Phase 1: 9+9, 70TB (COMPLETED)

• Phase 2: 6+6 45TB (ON GOING)

• Server DELL R640 (1U)

– Intel Xeon Gold 6150 2.7G, 18C/36T

– 768 GB RAM

– 2 X 800 GB NVMe Cache Disk

– 4 X 1,92 TB SSD Read Intensive

• Thin Client for Customer

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Reference Architecture

https://storagehub.vmware.c

om/t/vmware-vsan/xenapp-

and-xendesktop-7-12-on-

vsan-6-5-all-flash/

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Cluster General Purpose

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• Public Administration

– Security Provider for other PA

– IT services for Government

– Print Money

• Storage Upgrade

– Near 100% utilization

– 12-16 Months to have a new storage

• Business Continuity

• Customer Business • Customer Needs

Customer Profile

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Solution

• 3 vSAN Stretched Cluster Hybrid

– 1 Production Cluster

• 10+10, 80TB

– 2 Test&Dev/PreProd• Cluster 1: 6+6, 45TB

• Cluster 2: 6+6, 45TB

• Server DELL R740 (2U)

– Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz

– 512 GB RAM

– 2 X 800 GB SSD MU Cache Disk

– 14 X 1,8 TB 10K RPM SAS Disk

• Up and running since March 2017

• Experienced real DR in production in August 2017

ROMEROME

FOGGIA

vSAN traffic

ISL

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2 Node for Branch Offices

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• Hypermarket / supermarket chain with 63retail locations in northern Italy.

• Provide IT infrastructure for local applicationin supermarket

• Reduce costs and provisioning time

• Customer Business • Customer Needs

Customer Profile

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Solution

• 3 Site started as Pilot in 2017

• Expanding year over yeartargeting 2020-2021 for allthe stores

vSphere vSAN

vSphere vSAN

vSphere vSAN

vSphere vSAN

Supermarket A

Cluster 2

Supermarket B

Cluster 3

Hypermarket C

Cluster 4

Data Center

Cluster 1

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Industrial Plants

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• Automotive supplyer based in Italy

• Merged in 2016 with a Chines Patner

• More than 20 Industrial Plants distribuitedall over the world

• Standardize IT across the countries

• Create a «blueprint» for industrial plantshardware independent

• Reduce costs of infrastructure and reduce time to set-up a new Plan

• Started with 2 Business Critical plants in Cina in 2018, moving to complete all the plants in 2020

• Customer Business • Customer Needs

Customer Profile

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Premiere production plant

• 2 weeks for production ready

• Standardized architecture

– hardware independent

– Copy & past design

• Cost decrease

• Easy to scale and expand

• 2Y global deployment plan

• IT resilience aligned with industrial continuity plan

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Reference Architecture

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Accommodate Next-gen Apps using Shared-nothing Architectures

Ensures data resides on the same host VM runs

For next-gen apps that provide built-in app resiliency

• Hadoop

• Splunk

• Cassandra

VMs run with FTT=0 for space efficiency

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/splunk-on-vmware-vsan/

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/datastax-enterprise-on-

vmware-vsan-tm-6-7-all-flash-for-production/

HadoopData Node

vSphere vSAN

vSAN Datastore

HadoopData Node

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Splunk reference Architecture

Splunk software helps to create hidden value from ever growing machine data. These workloads need massive storage capacity and the infrastructure needs to be flexible, scalable, and provides linear performance increase with scaling.

VxRAIL powered by VMware vSAN provides the above requirements for running these big data workloads on top of cost-effective x86 hardware and software.

Splunk VMs Number

of VMs

vCPU per

VM

Memory (GB) per

VM

Total

Storage per

VM

Indexer 37 30 192 10 TB

Search Head 2 32 64 500 GB

License

Master 1 2 12 200 GB

Deployment

Server 1 4 12 200 GB

Search Head

Deployer 1 2 8 200 GB

Monitoring

Console 1 8 32 200 GB

Cluster Master 1 8 32 200 GB

Enterprise

Security

Search Head 1 68 128 1 TB

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/splunk-on-vmware-vsan/

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Cloud Native Application

Persistent Volume provisioning and management for Kubernetes

Prescriptive policy based control using SPBM

Volumes presented as First Class Disks (FCD) in vCenter

Easy to assign requirements

• vSAN admin creates SPBM policy

• Developer consumes with storage class

vSphere vSAN

Container Storage Interface - vSphere

Persistent

volumes

K8s Pods

VMDKs for

VMs & CNS

CNS control plane

Storage

Class

Storage

Policy

Dev

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MongoDB Reference Architecture

MongoDB: Total database size: ~217GB

ConfigurationFour shards: each shard has around 54GB dataFour replica sets: each replica set has one Primary, one Secondary, and one ArbiterData is durable by using JournalingPersistent Storage by vSphere Cloud Provider:Use StorageClass for dynamic provisioning

Kubernetes nodes:4 working nodes4 standby workers1 master node

VM configuration:OS: Photon OS 1.0VM RAM: 32GBVM vCPU: 8Disk Configuration (every node VM)Replica set (Primary or Secondary): 2 X 250GBReplica set (Arbiter): 1 X 20GBConfiguration Server: 1 x 20GB

https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/06/13/recipe-vmware-vsan-persistent-storage-mongodb-containers/

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Oracle on vSAN Reference Architecture

https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2018/10/24/oracle-database-on-all-flash-vsan-6-7-reference-architecture/

vSAN helps in maintaining storage separation between Oracle Clusters and other Clusters

Integrations between VCF and vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight help to prove certified documentations to Oracle Audit

ORACLE RAC supported both on single cluster and stretched cluster

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My SQL on vSAN Reference Architecture

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/mysql-on-vmware-vsan-6-7-all-flash/

vSAN is optimized for modern all-flash storage with near-linear scalability, deduplication and compression for storage efficiency, compression, erasure coding capabilities and hardware fault tolerance that lower TCO while delivering mission-critical performance for MySQL workload.

In this reference architecture, we deployed both a single instance configuration and a group replication configuration for MySQL database running on a vSAN all-flash cluster.

We validated single VM scaling performance in the SysBench multi-threading test, and scale out performance for different MySQL virtual machine count. The test result showed a close-to-linearity performance capability for vSAN all-flash.

We also validated vSAN SPBM offering with data services for MySQL database. With vSAN all-flash deduplication and compression and erasure coding, users can choose to improve space efficiency with minimized performance impact. Stripe width setting allows user to possibly improve performance with more evenly distributed MySQL virtual disk objects. What’s more, it is recommended to use CPU offloaded checksum feature to ensure MySQL data integrity on the vSAN level.

We proved that vSAN offers resiliency and high availability to Tier-1 application with running workload and guarantees business continuity of MySQL workloads.

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SAP HANA on vSAN Reference Architecture

vSAN is the only HCI solution allowing to use all socket presents in the hardware to run HANA VMs

VMware vSphere HA delivers a vSphere built-in high availability solution, which can be used to protect SAP HANA. VMware HA provides uniform, cost-effective failover protection against hardware and operating system outages and works with a vSAN data

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/sap-hana-on-hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions-powered-by-vmware-vsan-tm/

Luca Ortolan

Trainer and Presales

luca.ortolan@systematika.it

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4874428